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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

2. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?

3. Why does the class split up their junior year?

4. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

5. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?

2. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

3. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?

4. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?

5. Why is one student out of school for a week or two before beginning the sophomore year?

6. Why is a student excited to meet a Japanese man who was in an internment camp during World War I?

7. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

8. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

9. Why does a student transfer from the Distinguished Scholars program to Gruwell's class?

10. Why does Renee Firestone's story affect one student?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme in the book is the parallel between warfare as experienced by Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic and the violence the students see in their everyday lives. How can the events in Anne's and Zlata's lives be compared to the student's lives? What kind of violence did Frank and Filipovic experience? What type of violence do the students experience? How is the violence that Anne and Zlata experienced similar or dissimilar to what the students face?

Essay Topic 2

In the foreword to the book, Zlata mentions that good comes out of something bad. Several students, also mention in their diary entries how something bad turns into something positive. Write about what Zlata means that good comes from bad. What examples does Zlata give that shows good comes from bad circumstances? What do students say about difficult circumstances providing positive results? Provide examples from the book when something seems negative, but leads to positive results.

Essay Topic 3

In Diary 119, a student asks journalist Peter Maass how he can "simply sit and watch people die." Write about Mr. Maass's answer. Do you agree with his answer? Why or why not?

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